Madman's smoke and mirrors

I want to thank Helen for giving me the opportunity to post to this fine blog she has started.
;^)

With that, I'll just wade right on into the fray...

Although not strictly regarding the Caribbean, the following news item out of Australia details the short-lived and ill-fated marriage of a former Australian 'electronic warfare specialist' (soldier Melanie Brown) to a rastafari muslim terrorist wannabe named Willie Brigitte of French Guadaloupe.

Brigitte was arrested and incarcerated in France last October after being discreetly deported from Australia where he was described as "the most dangerous Al Qaeda link so far uncovered in this country" by Australian officials.

He stands accused of receiving terrorist training in Pakistan and is suspected of planning a variety of terrorist attacks in Australia.

Here's a snip...

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The marijuana fumes drifting from Willie Brigitte's locked room were unmistakable to newlywed Melanie Brown.

Melanie Brown ... married Brigitte 13 days after meeting him.

She asked her husband, who had once sermonised on the evils of the drug, where it had come from.

He admitted to smoking it.

"Willie told me he wanted to divert the attention of police," she told French interrogators in Paris earlier this year in transcripts obtained by The Daily Telegraph.

"He said that it was a facade to trick Australian anti-terrorist police. A person who smokes drugs could not be suspected of being a radical Muslim."

But for Brown, the former Australian soldier who wed Brigitte to fulfil her duty as a freshly converted Muslim, it was another confounding side to her complex, secretive and highly paranoid spouse.

In the six weeks that they lived together since their marriage on August 30, Brown threatened to leave the Frenchman several times due to the constant lies, duplicity and control he tried to exert over her.

She eventually concluded he had lost his mind. "Willie Brigitte seemed completely mad to me," she said.

"For example, he said that non-believers had to die and that it was necessary to kill all those who attack Muslims.

"I regarded him as an extremist religious Muslim but I couldn't connect him with a specific group.

"My husband represented a danger. That is why I refused to give him any confidential information I had in my possession."

Arriving in Sydney on May 16, Brigitte was taken in by Pakistani Faheem Khalid Lodhi, also known as Hamza and identified by French investigators as the chief of an al-Qaeda-linked terror cell in Sydney.

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The inroads radical Islam has made in the Caribbean as in other regions of the world are not to be underestimated.

Unfortunately our well-travelled borders and our cosmopolitan nature, are being capitalized upon by radical Islamist organizations with the same Saudi monies that feed the wahabbi strain of Islam across the world being funneled into regional mosques.

Heads up Caribbean!